WWII Homefront

What is the name given to "all the women" that worked in the defense plants?

• Mary the Rosie

• Rosie the Riveter

• Sandra the Riveter

• Mary the Riveter

How were many Japanese Americans treated in the U.S. during WWII?

• with fairness and empathy

• with honor for their service

• with distrust and prejudice

• with doubt and confusion

African Americans served as pilots in which unit?

• Parachute Troopers

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Honor Guards

• Honor Airmen

Who was forced into internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

• Irish Americans

• German Americans

• Jewish Americans

• Japanese Americans

African American soldiers were not segregated?

• True

• False

What president will desegregate the armed forces?

• Henry Ford

• Ronald Reagan

• Andrew Jackson

• Harry S. Truman

Women return to the workforce because-

• men no longer wanted the jobs

• men have moved away and don't need to work

• men have entered the war

• men have become stay at home fathers

WWII brought an end to the Great Depression in the U.S..

• True

• False

Americans at home supported the war efort by-

• isolating German, Italian, and Japanese immigrants

• refusing to buy war bonds

• conserving and rationing resources

• importing and exporting supplies to Great britain

What are three ways Americans helped on the homefront?

• planting Victory Gardens

• using rationing books

• buying extra food

• saving scrap metal